The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-08
DE BAUSSETS BALLOON.
Air-Ship With Which He Hopes to
Navigate to the Pole.

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will start to travel to do Mort Pole naix
June, poseeteef," said DIR. DeBausset to a
reporter who called to see him about his
grand scheme of aerostration.
"He viii go 100 miles de hour in altitude
five miles above de ART, or de leemeet of
respirable air. Look at him." and the in
ventor pointed to a big chart on the wall
where a long cylinder with conical ends
was painted in bright red Along the side
was a faithful representation OF a woodshed
roof gaudily painted blue. dat ees de
veeng of the aero-plane. Dat viii keep de
ship in one plane, also prevent him to fail to
de ground. Along de aige of de veeng is a
gutter to catch de rain and prevent him to
fail on de passengers. Below ees suspended
de car, vich will contain 200 yoyageurs,
fret and mail mattaire. As to de
dimansiongs of de air ship, he is 654 feed i'll
langce, III feed in high and matt of lami-
mated steel LA Of an eench teeck. Tree
force of de air with dees cylinder is exhowst
and de machine rise grandly into re atmos-
phere. To propel de ship in de cur are air
pumps of immangse power, driven by cleo
trio dynamos. Desc dynamos are supplied
by electricity from storage batteries, which
have invent. Eet ees not like de storage
batteries vich are now in use All, no. So
soon as one is emptied take anoder and
hecs own electricity"
'Why don't you patent that"
"Von ting at time. Ven de air-ship is
complete dain it will be time to get out a
patent for dat"
The doctor went on TO explain, his little
dumpy form swelling with enthusiasm and
his black eyes flashing, how the pump
would suck III the air from in front of the
ship and expel it from the rear, thus realiz-
inrr fbn .SRiy4oa Of hn Ar,riarNf Mnrinnr -
where to the question of what makes the
ship go on SO fast, the answer is returned:
The air is cut away in front and driven
on behind.n
But will cylinder of steel as thick as a
common pin, as long as the exposition
building, and as high as the Pullman stand
the pressure OF fifteen pounds to the square
inch:" asked the reporter.
"Ah! dat ees de groII' queshong," replied
the doctor, wagging his grey, pointed beard
and glaring over his eyeglasses while he
reached for fresh cigarette.
UNLESS it was braced strongly it could
not hold up its own weight"
''Of course not" declared NJ. DeBausset;
"but it will be braced Wit r-rings and arma-
lures and stays"
"Of what sortF'
"Cho! Dat ees nawn of your beesness,"
tartly Teioined the inventor.
lDut, IG GOilblIluGNl, ven u6 I'LL ID OK
houst one-fourth will be left to relieve the
pressure Of de air, vich at dees level is only
twelve pounds to de square eench. Dat
would leave nine pounds to be sustained on
every square eench.
While the doctor was talking the reporter
did little figuring, which showed that on
every square yard of steel left Embraced
there would be an air pressure of u,6G4
pounds, or nearly six tons. Mr. DeBausset
II,
proves that the cylinder can stand the strain.
This formula reads Let l. equal the length,
D the diameter and I the thickness of the
tube and 2 the collapsng pressure; then 2
equals 9,672 600 into T over l. d. This set
ties the question cOnclusively.
The cylinder is to be divided into air tight
compartments, so that if the navigator
wants to point the ships nose upward to
ascend on an incline plane, the air is pumped
out of a forward compartment If he
wishes to descend on an incline plane all he
has to do is to pull the cork out of the COM
partment and gracefully float earthward
The doctor expects to have the machine
ready long before next June, and promised
the reporter free ride, if the 'head editor"
was willing and could spare him.
The programme announces in its own
straightforward style: 1.-THE starting point
will be from New York city, and the route
will be as follows: From New York to
Philadelphia, Washington, Toledo, Chicago,
Omaha, San Francisco, Yeddo, Canton,
Pekin, Constantinople, Turkey; Rome,
Italy; Paris, France; Berlin, Germany /;
Copenhagen, Denmark; Stockholm, Swe-
den, and st. Petersburg, Russia From this
last city directly via Greenland to the
Arctic regions The time table allows one
hours stop at each station.
The prospectus is adorned with a beauti-
ful cut of this immense cylinder, floating in
the air directly over Black Jacks bumboat,
while Chicago lies stretched out below
Goose Island is plainly disccrnible and
away over in DuPage county, two vigor-
Ously erupting volcanoes are pegging away
for dear life. The foothills of a wild and
mountainous country diversity the land
scape about Wicker Park, rising to grander
heights in jefferson, while lofty peaks
crowned with everlasting SHOWS rear aloft
their hoary heads where Commissioner
Klehm now hoes his corn.
DR.. De Bausset claims entire originality
for his scheme on which he has been at
work for the last twenty years, but a man,
shortly after the air-pump was invented,
tried the same thing with globe of thin
copper with the result of collapse The
doctor was asked if he had made any ex-
perimentS, but he "hemmed" and ''hawed"
and finally admitted that he had made two.
One was with a thin glass globe which
shivered into bits the moment the air was
exhausted, and the other was with the globe
of an incandescent electric lamp.
"See how light it is exclaimed the doc
tor and tried to make it stand on end But
the little pear-snaped bulb would topple over
just as clumsily as if it had been "chuck"
full of air
The high-sounding appellation of the COM
pany of which NJ. De Bausset is President,
and which is to build the air-ship, is the
Transcontinental Aerial Navigation Com
pony, and was Incorporated with a capital
stock Of $50 900, at 500 share.
An effort was made to find out how many
shares had been taken, but VI. DeBausset
was very shy about saying anything on that
score, and declared that he was talking sci
ence Just then. If his visitor had come TO
talk business that would be "deetferong."
He said, however, that if person gave 500
OF $40 900, he would only get one seat in the
air-ship. From what he said il was learned
that neither OF the Farweils, Marshall Field,
odd Hutch, Phil Armour or any other Of
the prominent scientists Of Chicago had
laid their little all at his feet to aid in the
grand cause of conquering for man the UNI
trodden empire Of the air
On the back page of one Of the pamphlets
which Dr. DE BausSet gets out, he has given
to mankind gems of thought, of which the
following are the brightest;
"Galileo found that the earth rotates and
translates"
''rhe word impossible has been used by
eminent authority in regard TO many inven-